Re: [tied], Re:, Urartu.

Torsten:

>One thing strikes me in these discussions of escape routes: It seems
>everyone assumes that while escaping these peoples were in uncharted
>waters, areas that were frigtening and hostile. But if there had been
>trade along those rivers for thousands of years,

A good 10,000 years of Transcaucasian trade, in fact. Note Mallory
on sheep in "In Search of Indo-Europeans" which supposedly were
not native to the north until trade was opened up between the North
Pontic-Caspian and the South Caspian areas.

- gLeN


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